deal with deadlock in d_walk()
commit ca5358ef75fc69fee5322a38a340f5739d997c10 upstream.
... by not hitting rename_retry for reasons other than rename having
happened. In other words, do _not_ restart when finding that
between unlocking the child and locking the parent the former got
into __dentry_kill(). Skip the killed siblings instead...
Change-Id: I84ff3e9da0caee5af87d3a9982b258077025e28b
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
- As we only have try_to_ascend() and not d_walk(), apply this
change to all callers of try_to_ascend()
- Adjust context to make __dentry_kill() apply to d_kill()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: fold the fix 2d5a2e6775fa in 3.2.y into this patch]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
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